Contemporary Quote by Nigel Gibson

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

— Isaac Asimov

Forty-seven years -- and I find I mind it less and less.

— Louise Andrews Kent

“EACH RECRIMINATIVE DECADE POSES NEW riddles, how best to live, how best to write. One's fifties, in principle less acceptable than one's forties, at…

— Anthony Powell

Time starts out as a notion. But after you turn fifty, time is not a notion anymore but a fact that you start feeling…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might reach the…

— Graham Greene

Edward Banfield's idea of the "long time horizon," says that more successful people look further into the future, judging their efforts and results in…

— Tom Butler-Bowdon

If you want to write something of length, however modern and radical, you must live the life of an elderly gentleman of the 1950s.

— Arthur Smith

Fifty is the new forty. I always thought my best work would come in the years forty to sixty, if I was fortunate enough…

— Bruce Willis

“When you're on the other side of it," she says, "fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“It cannot be denied that the most successful practitioners of the art of life, often unknown people by the way, somehow contrive to synchronize…

— Virginia Woolf

“twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.”

— Gertrude Stein

When one woman was asked how long she had been going to symphony concerts, she paused to calculate and replied, 'Forty-seven years - and…

— Louise Andrews Kent